S-Class Hunter Heals with Monsters - Chapter 139



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Episode 139: King Dodaki’s Staff

Cheon Do-woon laughed at Dodak’s reaction.

“Is this really it? “Are you worried because you saw my hair as a leaf?”

Before I knew it, Dodak was bouncing in place.

But even for a moment. Dodak looked at Cheon Do-un with eyes bursting with majesty.

It’s too early to be happy.

Now only one leaf has grown. It wasn’t enough yet.

-Huh.

I wanted at least 3 leaves to grow.

-Help, hehe!

It would be great if it grew 4 leaves like you did.

-Huh… !

Let’s feed him more berries. After reaching a conclusion, Dodak nodded his head. As soon as she had a goal, her eyes became wide open.

“This is a big deal. You can’t keep wearing leaves. “What should I do?”

Contrary to the saying that it was a big deal, the corners of Cheon Do-woon’s mouth turned up in a good mood.

He lifted the dodaki and placed it on his shoulder.

To prevent the leaf on her head from falling, Dodak placed it on her opposite shoulder and opened the notebook.

‘I think it’s an established fact that my ancestor is a world tree. If so… ‘What was my allergy?’

pollen allergy.

Cheon Do-un suffered from severe pollen allergy when he was young.

It made no sense that the power to harmonize even the monster’s cells couldn’t do anything about pollen.

‘If he had looked at my chart, he would have known that Joseph had an allergy to me.’

If so, you must have had the same questions as yourself.

As Cheon Do-un was flipping through his notes, his eyes stopped at a certain place.

The corners of his mouth rose. As expected, there was a record of that part in the notebook.

“While investigating allergies, I found strange traces in 17 blood tests. “This is a sign that he has restrained himself from the power of the World Tree.”

“Control your strength… ? I?”

Cheon Do-un raised his eyes at the unexpected words.

He had never felt the power of the World Tree. Wasn’t it only recently that we learned that our ancestors were the world tree?

“I guess I wasn’t aware of it. But it’s definitely true. In number 17, it was decided that those with allergies would have an advantage in survival. “It must have been suppressing the power of harmony and causing allergies.”

What does this mean again? Cheon Do-un read the note with a subtle expression.

“It is believed that the age at which the World Tree’s abilities were suppressed was around 6 or 7 years old.”

When children are 6 or 7 years old, they are still in daycare. Cheon Do-un paused while looking back on his memories.

“ah… “Maybe it happened back then?”

There was one thing I could guess.

He is 7 years old. Something from my childhood that I don’t even remember much now.

Pollen allergies were common in the old world.

When the gate opened, the dust from the Demon World plants mixed in and spread, causing some people to develop allergies that they had never had before.

Of course, it was a word that did not apply to Cheon Do-un. At least that was the case until he was 7 years old.

[Wow, where did you get that bread?]

Late in the evening, children of Cheon Do-woon’s age gathered in the yard of the orphanage.

Cheon Do-un, who was sitting on a bench in the yard, could also hear the children talking.

[The bread store guy gave me this.]

[really? This is octopus-shaped bread. Isn’t the guy in that store famous for not giving you anything even if you beg for it?]

[Yes, but. It’s okay because I have a secret weapon.]

The child laughed and opened the bag of bread.

This bread is already well past its expiration date. There were some moldy parts, but the child didn’t care.

All food sold in old-world slums was of this standard. All you have to do is tear off the spoiled part, throw it away, and eat it.

If I was lucky, nothing would happen. If I was unlucky, I would have a stomach ache, but it didn’t matter because I could satisfy my immediate hunger.

[Hey, please talk to me. What is your secret weapon? How do I get the guy there to give me bread?]

[The secret weapon is… ! This is it.]

The child pointed to his bloodshot eyes. With perfect timing, tears flowed.

[I have pollen allergy. When spring comes, my eyes get really itchy and look like this. You can sing in this state.]

[Then you give me bread?]

[uh. I think I’m going to die if I don’t eat that bread now. The point is to cry with that feeling.]

It wasn’t something a 7-year-old would say. However, this was also a common sight in old-world slums.

[But we can’t do that because we don’t have allergies.]

[That’s right. He’s the only one who has allergies and it’s fatal.]

The children became sullen. The child who was allergic ate ​​the bread with a triumphant look on his face.

The bread was dry and tasteless.

At that time, almost everything sold in the slums was like that.

Not only did they sell food that was long past its expiration date, but they also made and sold food using ingredients that people should not eat.

The ingredient for making bread was also not flour.

An unidentified food made by grinding poisonous grass.

Everyone knew, but no one in the slums cared about that.

If you didn’t put something in your mouth right away, you would starve to death, so it was a luxury to consider the ingredients of food.

[Ah, I ate well!]

The child ate the bread with a satisfied expression.

The children’s shoulders slumped as they expected to share even a little.

[I will definitely succeed in begging tomorrow!]

The children spoke with enthusiastic faces.

Although food was distributed at the orphanage, 6- and 7-year-old children were often deprived of their food by larger students.

The only option for such children was to go to the streets and beg.

When the children went in, Cheon Do-woon was left alone in the yard. He thought over what the children said.

[That’s good. I wish I had allergies too.]

Since I don’t have it, I’ll have to find another way. How about sprinkling dirt in your eyes beforehand?

If you do that, you will become bloodshot and teary. It will definitely be a pitiful looking face.

‘Let’s try tomorrow.’

It’s late today, so let’s try early tomorrow morning.

So the next day.

When Cheon Do-un woke up, he felt something was strange.

My eyes were itchy. Her eyes flickered before her eyes. As I blinked, the accumulated tears flowed out.

I felt strange and when I stood in front of the mirror, I saw red bloodshot eyes.

[and. good night.]

I developed a pollen allergy in just one day.

Cheon Do-woon was 7 years old at the time. He was too young to question his sudden allergy.

Thinking it was just that, I ran to the side of the road.

I have a feeling that the success rate of begging will be high today.

That was the day Cheon Do-woon developed pollen allergy.

[I saw a scary kid today.]

It was also the day when ghost stories spread throughout the shopping malls of the slums.

[When I went to open the store in the morning, there was a child in front of the door. At first, I thought he was a kid who came to beg. I thought she would beat me up and kick me out… .]

[You were really scared of the snow, weren’t you?]

[that’s right! Did you see it too?]

The store owners gathered in small groups nodded.

[I saw it. The whites of the eyes are red and bloodshot, as if all the veins have burst. Standing like a mannequin, looking at me… Water was flowing out of my eyes like a waterfall.]

[That’s right, that deadpan expression! That expressionless expression really gave me goosebumps! In that state, it points to the bread in the display case… Ugh.]

[What about those bloodshot eyes? I was scared that tears of blood would come out. It looked like a ghost from a ghost movie.]

[The child’s eyes were so scary that I threw him some bread and sent him away. It seemed like if I just sent it, it would appear in my dreams.]

Cheon Do-un became a celebrity without even realizing it.

The success rate of begging in spring has also clearly increased.

Yeah, I forgot, but it definitely happened.

‘That allergy was caused by suppressing the power of the World Tree?’

It is interesting to be able to partially control the power of harmony.

“After receiving the forget-me-not pollen, my 17 allergies disappeared. It seems that his body’s cells have decided that allergies are no longer necessary for survival. “I guess that’s why it was removed.”

“If it’s true, it’s a very convenient body.”

Cheon Do-un laughed. Wouldn’t it be quite useful if we could control the power of the World Tree?

‘If possible, I should try to radiate my power externally.’

Although it was done without awareness, he had already controlled his power once. It’s possible if you just get the hang of it.

Cheon Do-un closed the notebook and smiled.

* * *

The Alchemist Branch, a specialty of the slums.

An exclamation erupted from there.

“Finished!”

Inside the lab, Joseph burst into laughter with a pale face.

“I finished it. Nutrients from metal roots… ! Now it’s perfect. “This is all I need!”

“Are you finally finished?”

After hearing Joseph’s voice, Manager Kim and Cheolsu Kim came running.

They looked at the cream container on the desk and tilted their heads.

“It’s not an IV.”

“I guess so. “Because it’s metal, a needle won’t go in.”

Joseph looked at the cream he made.

“The moisturizing cream you made is very popular among Mandragoras. I got the idea from that. This nutritional supplement I made will also be absorbed into metal. Now just bring me this… .”

Joseph had a complicated face.

You can try the nutritional supplements you made on Mandragora.

It was a pleasure to go to check it out, but encountering Cheon Do-un couldn’t help but be uncomfortable.

“But Manager Kim. I heard you broke the explosion spell. “Is it true?”

“I didn’t do it alone. “If Teacher Cheon wasn’t there, we would have been in big trouble.”

“Anyway, it’s true. “Then, is it possible to create a formula to break the barrier?”

Joseph asked, remembering his lab in Greenbelt.

“I know the basics, but. “Don’t you know that, Joseph?”

“I only scratch the surface. I don’t have any talent in that area. Since I only studied plant monsters… “To be honest, I’m not good at other areas.”

Joseph said after looking at Manager Kim.

“As you know, I am an old-fashioned person. The laboratory I used when I was young is in the mountains. While I was on a long business trip abroad, that place was designated as a greenbelt. “The barrier has been set up so we can’t go in.”

“Oh my. Ah, but if that’s the case, why don’t you apply for an entry permit from the government?”

Joseph shook his head.

“The government is not that strict. If you write down the reason, they will go in and investigate first. “I will dig into my research materials as I please.”

Joseph shuddered as if thinking about it was terrifying.

“There are things in that lab that I risked my life to get through the gate.”

Leaves and branches of the World Tree.

That was the reason I couldn’t tell the government.

If the government finds it first, they will give various reasons and take it away.

Because I knew that, I just stamped my feet and sucked my fingers for decades.

‘The leaves of the World Tree must be recovered.’

The leaf had already been found and stuck in Cheon Doun’s head.

‘You can’t give up even the branches of the world tree. Because it was in that branch that the power of harmony radiated particularly strongly.’

That tree branch was also in Cheon Doun’s hand.

At the moment when Joseph was burning with enthusiasm, Cheon Do-woon held out a tree branch to Dodaki.

“ruler. “Dodak has this.”

-Huh?

“Looking at the resonance with the leaves, the energy of the World Tree seems to be quite strong. There is a possibility that Mandragora is a species derived from the World Tree. “It might be good for your health to have it.”

The branches of the World Tree were treated as health bracelets.

Dodak tilted his head and accepted the branch.

“The size is just right.”

When Dodak held it, the branch looked like a cane.

Dodak looked closely at the tree branches.

I don’t know what this is, but it was given to me by my helper. If so, I like it.

-Huh!

Dodak lifted up a tree branch.

King Dodaki took possession of the World Tree’s staff.

Joseph, unaware of that fact, looked out the window with faint eyes.

“I must retrieve it. Especially tree branches… “That can never be taken away.”

The tree branch has already become Dodaki’s majestic staff. He was twirling a tree branch with the roots of his arms.

There was no way Joseph knew that.

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